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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:admin="http://webns.net/mvcb/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:xCal="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:xcal" xmlns:geo="https://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#"> <channel> <title>MetaFilter</title> <link>https://www.metafilter.com/</link> <description>The past 24 hours of MetaFilter</description> <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2025 06:42:19 GMT</pubDate> <lastBuildDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2025 06:42:19 GMT</lastBuildDate> <language>en-us</language> <docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs> <ttl>60</ttl> <atom:link href="https://rss.metafilter.com/metafilter.rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /> <item> <title>Barn owls a hit in farm anti-poisons pilot project</title> <description><![CDATA[Barn owls a hit in farm anti-poisons pilot project. <a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2025-07-06/rodenticide-barn-owls-pest-control-natural-alternative/105477976">With the imminent release of a review into the risks of rodent bait in Australia, an award-winning initiative uses barn owls as a natural alternative to controlling rats and mice on farms</a>.]]></description> <link>https://www.metafilter.com/209504/Barn-owls-a-hit-in-farm-anti-poisons-pilot-project</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">tag:metafilter.com,2025:site.209504</guid> <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2025 06:42:19 GMT</pubDate> <dc:creator>chariot pulled by cassowaries</dc:creator> <category>BarnOwls</category> <wfw:commentRss>https://www.metafilter.com/209504/Barn-owls-a-hit-in-farm-anti-poisons-pilot-project/rss</wfw:commentRss> </item> <item> <title>Prime numbers are the bomb!</title> <description><![CDATA[Another addictive web game from <a href="https://vole.wtf/">vole.wtf</a>: <a href="https://vole.wtf/primesweeper/">Primesweeper</a>. It's Minesweeper, but every space is also marked with a 3-digit number. The numbers that are prime mark the locations of the mines. You still get the normal numbered hints, but you don't get to mark spaces where you believe mines to be. Win by revealing every non-mine square. (via <a href="https://vole.wtf/primesweeper/">projects</a>)<br/><br/>vole.wtf (from MeFi's own <a href="https://www.metafilter.com/user/14128">malevolent</a>) previously:<ul><li><a href="https://www.metafilter.com/207796/30-50-barrels-and-logs">Styscraper</a>, <a href="https://vole.wtf/styscraper/">a physics game</a></li><li><a href="https://www.metafilter.com/205989/Griping-in-the-Guts-or-Gangrene">17-Century Death Roulette</a>, <a href="https://vole.wtf/death-roulette/">find out how you'd die in the 1600s</a></li><li><a href="https://www.metafilter.com/200897/British-Seaside-Simulator">British Seaside Simulator</a>, <a href="https://vole.wtf/british-seaside/">vacation recreation</a></li><li><a href="https://www.metafilter.com/200414/This-is-my-mastapiece-This-is-the-one-that-theyll-rememba-me-for">Clone-a-Lisa</a>, <a href="https://vole.wtf/clone-a-lisa/">paint the Mona Lisa as well as you can in one minute</a></li><li><a href="https://www.metafilter.com/200045/Big-Ben-word-game">Big Ben</a>, <a href="https://vole.wtf/big-ben/">a word game</a></li><li><a href="https://www.metafilter.com/196741/from-the-folks-who-brought-you-FaceParagraph">Kilogram</a>, <a href="https://vole.wtf/kilogram/">compress images down to 1K to see how ugly they get</a></li><li><a href="https://www.metafilter.com/196934/Crisp-Sandwich-Day">Crisp Sandwich Day</a>, <a href="https://vole.wtf/crisp-sandwich-day/">an annual celebration of sandwiches with potato chips</a></li><li><a href="https://www.metafilter.com/186397/Voleflix-a-public-domain-movie-site">Voleflix</a>, <a href="https://vole.wtf/voleflix/">a collection of public domain movies</a></li><li><a href="https://www.metafilter.com/190667/Can-you-beat-1024-bytes-of-JavaScript">Kilobyte's Gambit</a>, <a href="https://vole.wtf/kilobytes-gambit/">a chess opponent implemented in 1K of Javascript</a></li><li><a href="https://www.metafilter.com/190229/Happy-Birthday-To-You-free-stock-music">Happy Birthday to You</a>, <a href="https://vole.wtf/happy-birthday/">free versions of the song "Happy Birthday" in a variety of styles</a></li><li><a href="https://www.metafilter.com/185590/AvocadonToast">Avocado 'n' Toast</a>, <a href="https://vole.wtf/avocado-n-toast/">bot-generated webcomic about millennials</a></li><li><a href="https://www.metafilter.com/184250/Hit-the-High-Notes-singing-game">High Notes</a>, <a href="https://vole.wtf/high-notes/">sing (you! out loud!) and have your browser judge how high your note was</a></li><li><a href="https://www.metafilter.com/183577/Drink-Another-Coin-a-Phrase">Perfect Circle</a>, <a href="https://neal.fun/perfect-circle/">draw the best circle you can</a> </li><li><a href="https://www.metafilter.com/183244/ButtyStock-the-number-one-site-for-free-crisp-sandwich-photos">ButtyStock</a>, <a href="https://vole.wtf/buttystock/">free pictures for everyone, so long as they're of sandwiches</a></li></ul><a href="https://projects.metafilter.com/5649/VOLEwtf-malevole-reborn">The Projects page for vole.wtf</a>]]></description> <link>https://www.metafilter.com/209503/Prime-numbers-are-the-bomb</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">tag:metafilter.com,2025:site.209503</guid> <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2025 06:40:09 GMT</pubDate> <dc:creator>JHarris</dc:creator> <category>collection</category> <category>game</category> <category>malevolent</category> <category>math</category> <category>minesweeper</category> <category>PrimeNumbers</category> <category>vole</category> <category>web</category> <category>wtf</category> <wfw:commentRss>https://www.metafilter.com/209503/Prime-numbers-are-the-bomb/rss</wfw:commentRss> </item> <item> <title>I sure like being inside this fancy computer!</title> <description><![CDATA[<a href="https://aresluna.org/frame-of-preference/">A fascinating trip down UI memory lane, with a look at the Macintosh's control panel's evolution over the years (including embedded emulators to play with!)</a> ]]></description> <link>https://www.metafilter.com/209502/I-sure-like-being-inside-this-fancy-computer</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">tag:metafilter.com,2025:site.209502</guid> <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2025 06:31:08 GMT</pubDate> <dc:creator>DoctorFedora</dc:creator> <category>apple</category> <category>computers</category> <category>design</category> <category>gui</category> <category>guis</category> <category>interface</category> <category>mac</category> <category>macintosh</category> <category>tech</category> <category>ui</category> <category>uis</category> <wfw:commentRss>https://www.metafilter.com/209502/I-sure-like-being-inside-this-fancy-computer/rss</wfw:commentRss> </item> <item> <title>Tower Records</title> <description><![CDATA[<a href="https://wearethemutants.com/2023/04/12/on-4th-and-broadway-remembering-tower-records/">On 4th and Broadway: Remembering Tower Records</a>]]></description> <link>https://www.metafilter.com/209501/Tower-Records</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">tag:metafilter.com,2025:site.209501</guid> <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2025 02:27:26 GMT</pubDate> <dc:creator>Lemkin</dc:creator> <category>1980s</category> <category>80s</category> <category>art</category> <category>business</category> <category>greenwichvillage</category> <category>music</category> <category>newyorkcity</category> <category>nyc</category> <category>records</category> <wfw:commentRss>https://www.metafilter.com/209501/Tower-Records/rss</wfw:commentRss> </item> <item> <title>Cook with a bird's eye view</title> <description><![CDATA[<a href="https://gobsmacked.io/">Gobsmacked</a> provides a high-level snapshot of your recipe, highlighting the essential ingredients and core actions to help you quickly grasp what's involved. Key times are included to help you plan your cooking schedule, so you can manage prep and cooking phases efficiently without feeling rushed. Ingredients and main steps are visually grouped to reveal how the dish progresses from start to finish, giving you a clear sense of the overall cooking sequence.]]></description> <link>https://www.metafilter.com/209500/Cook-with-a-birds-eye-view</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">tag:metafilter.com,2025:site.209500</guid> <pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2025 21:58:32 GMT</pubDate> <dc:creator>chavenet</dc:creator> <category>ai</category> <category>chatgpt</category> <category>Cooking</category> <category>Flow</category> <category>Organization</category> <category>Prep</category> <category>Recipes</category> <category>Timing</category> <category>YesChef</category> <wfw:commentRss>https://www.metafilter.com/209500/Cook-with-a-birds-eye-view/rss</wfw:commentRss> </item> <item> <title>cache me if you can</title> <description><![CDATA[<a href="https://planetscale.com/blog/caching">Planetscale explores caching in a highly graphical, animated and interactive way.</a> I've been working on a hydrological problem involving relocating a river and Planetscale's animated interface helped me understand some fundamentals about short-term detention and release of water flow that I hadn't realised before. I suspect there is a lot of heuristic depth for other disciplines to learn from their approach. Planetscale self deprecatingly describe their approach as just scratching the surface.]]></description> <link>https://www.metafilter.com/209499/cache-me-if-you-can</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">tag:metafilter.com,2025:site.209499</guid> <pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2025 21:07:34 GMT</pubDate> <dc:creator>unearthed</dc:creator> <category>caching</category> <category>color</category> <category>colour</category> <category>interactive</category> <category>play</category> <category>UX</category> <wfw:commentRss>https://www.metafilter.com/209499/cache-me-if-you-can/rss</wfw:commentRss> </item> <item> <title>Inside the Traffic Apocalypse</title> <description><![CDATA["It all amounts to a kind of traffic apocalypse in which it seems all spigots for traffic are being turned off, affecting news organizations big and small, new and old. ... <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20250707120815/https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/inside-the-medias-traffic-apocalypse.html">The whole premise of internet publishing — that you could reach audiences far and wide — is starting to crumble</a>, forcing publishers to reevaluate what kind of stories they produce and what kind of readers they want — and, ultimately, to think smaller and more bespoke."<br/><br/><blockquote>Not everyone is so excited. "I've never seen so much disarray in a strategic capacity in terms of where we're all pointing the boat. No one is in alignment," said one top magazine editor. "Right now you're seeing literally every strategy going to market." If there is consensus, it's around having a diversified strategy that avoids being reliant on any third-party platform to reach an audience. But "that's hard to do if you're a startup brand and don't have 20 years of consumer memory of who you are," said Keith Bonnici, who became COO of The Daily Beast last fall. It's even a challenge for the legacy organizations with the most recognizable brands. "Frankly, some of the stuff that we're doing right now — and we have been doing over the last year or so — around establishing a direct relationship, about building in tools that help our journalism reach more people without relying on platforms — we should have been doing years ago," said a senior New York Times editor. "But it was sort of like we weren't forced to really contend with it."</blockquote>]]></description> <link>https://www.metafilter.com/209498/Inside-the-Traffic-Apocalypse</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">tag:metafilter.com,2025:site.209498</guid> <pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2025 15:23:59 GMT</pubDate> <dc:creator>Lemkin</dc:creator> <category>ai</category> <category>computers</category> <category>internet</category> <category>media</category> <category>news</category> <category>publishing</category> <category>technology</category> <wfw:commentRss>https://www.metafilter.com/209498/Inside-the-Traffic-Apocalypse/rss</wfw:commentRss> </item> <item> <title>She Wanted to Save the World From A.I.</title> <description><![CDATA[<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/06/business/ziz-lasota-zizians-rationalists.html?unlocked_article_code=1.U08.DYDe.LLCSVL7GZ-2m&smid=url-share">Then the Killings Started.</a> At first, Ziz LaSota seemed much like any other philosophically inclined young tech aspirant. Now, she and her followers are in jail, six people are dead, and Rationalists are examining whether their ideas played a role.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.metafilter.com/207865/A-far-out-cognitive-model-and-moral-philosophy">Previously</a>]]></description> <link>https://www.metafilter.com/209497/She-Wanted-to-Save-the-World-From-AI</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">tag:metafilter.com,2025:site.209497</guid> <pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2025 12:34:44 GMT</pubDate> <dc:creator>Toddles</dc:creator> <category>AI</category> <category>cult</category> <category>murder</category> <category>rationalist</category> <category>sanfrancisco</category> <category>ziz</category> <wfw:commentRss>https://www.metafilter.com/209497/She-Wanted-to-Save-the-World-From-AI/rss</wfw:commentRss> </item> <item> <title>This London Museum Lets You Order Objects From Its Vast Collections</title> <description><![CDATA[This London Museum Lets You Order Objects From Its Vast Collections—and Maybe Even Touch Them. <a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/this-london-museum-lets-you-order-items-from-its-vast-collections-and-maybe-even-touch-them-180986848/">At the new V&A East Storehouse, visitors can get up close and personal with 250,000 historic and culturally significant items spanning 5,000 years of human creativity</a>.]]></description> <link>https://www.metafilter.com/209496/This-London-Museum-Lets-You-Order-Objects-From-Its-Vast-Collections</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">tag:metafilter.com,2025:site.209496</guid> <pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2025 12:12:27 GMT</pubDate> <dc:creator>chariot pulled by cassowaries</dc:creator> <category>Museums</category> <category>VA</category> <category>VictoriaAndAlbertMuseum</category> <wfw:commentRss>https://www.metafilter.com/209496/This-London-Museum-Lets-You-Order-Objects-From-Its-Vast-Collections/rss</wfw:commentRss> </item> <item> <title>"All the rage, all the shame."</title> <description><![CDATA[<a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m002fp3t/live-aid-at-40-when-rock-n-roll-took-on-the-world">Live Aid at 40: When Rock 'n' Roll Took on the World</a> A three part documentary looking back at the Live Aid, 40 (!?) years on.<br/><br/>History has been... somewhat mixed in its assessment of Live Aid but, as a useful <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/jul/06/live-aid-at-40-when-rock-n-roll-took-on-the-world-review-bob-geldof-bbc2">Guardian review</a> notes "there's no debating what an extraordinary phenomenon it was." "Episode one... is all about the smaller but still massive cultural moment that resulted from Geldof's initial impulse to raise funds for Ethiopia: Do They Know It's Christmas?, a single by the hastily assembled supergroup Band Aid." Subsequent episodes deal, somewhat more critically, with the accusation that Geldof became a "white saviour" figure, with the practical measures involved in actually allocating the money raised and with the self-interest of at least some of the participants.]]></description> <link>https://www.metafilter.com/209495/All-the-rage-all-the-shame</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">tag:metafilter.com,2025:site.209495</guid> <pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2025 10:51:38 GMT</pubDate> <dc:creator>deeker</dc:creator> <category>BobGeldof</category> <category>Celebrity</category> <category>Charity</category> <category>LiveAid</category> <wfw:commentRss>https://www.metafilter.com/209495/All-the-rage-all-the-shame/rss</wfw:commentRss> </item> <item> <title>Not yet completely out of the Woods</title> <description><![CDATA[In this sense, the post-1990 monetary-policy regime contributed to global stability by ensuring that central banks remained focused on putting their own house in order. But can the cooperative model of global monetary policy survive in an age of geopolitical fragmentation? Will central banks remain independent and maintain their commitment to price stability above all? The answers will depend on the frameworks adopted to govern the interplay between fiscal and monetary policy in an increasingly conflictual world. from <a href="https://www.project-syndicate.org/onpoint/rise-and-fall-of-bretton-woods-by-giancarlo-corsetti-2025-05">The Twilight of Bretton Woods</a> by <a href="https://www.eui.eu/people?id=giancarlo-corsetti">Giancarlo Corsetti</a> [Project Syndicate; <a href="https://archive.is/44T7w">ungated</a>]]]></description> <link>https://www.metafilter.com/209494/Not-yet-completely-out-of-the-Woods</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">tag:metafilter.com,2025:site.209494</guid> <pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2025 10:26:32 GMT</pubDate> <dc:creator>chavenet</dc:creator> <category>BrettonWoods</category> <category>CentralBanking</category> <category>Globalization</category> <category>InterestRates</category> <category>Keynes</category> <category>MonetaryPolicy</category> <category>PostWar</category> <wfw:commentRss>https://www.metafilter.com/209494/Not-yet-completely-out-of-the-Woods/rss</wfw:commentRss> </item> </channel></rss> If you would like to create a banner that links to this page (i.e. this validation result), do the following:
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